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Rhombohedral or Trigonal Bravais Crystal Lattice

From Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D., About.com

The rhombohedral crystal is described by vectors of equal length which are not mutually orthogonal.DrBob, wikipedia.org
The rhombohedral (or trigonal) crystal is described by vectors of equal length, all three of which are not mutually orthogonal. You can think of the rhombohedral system as the cubic system stretched along a body diagonal.

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